Dozens of bike racks are coming to Riverhead Town

BARBARAELLEN KOCH PHOTO | Buildings and Grounds worker Dave Zebrowski with some of the new bike racks being stored at a town yard on Pulaski Street Wednesday morning.

Bike racks will soon be popping up throughout Riverhead Town.

The racks come courtesy of a $20,000 grant secured by the Cornell Cooperative Extension and were purchased last week. The racks will be going up soon at parks, beaches and elsewhere in town.

“Cornell received grant money, and they donated the money so that we can buy the bike racks,” said Councilwoman Jodi Giglio, who sits on the town’s alternative transportation committee “And there will be a decorative one in front of the community garden, in the shape of a bike.”

The racks are currently in storage at Twin Forks bike on East Main Street.

“Nick [Attisano, the Twin Forks bike owner] got the delivery about a few days ago,” Ms. Giglio said last week. “Building and grounds will begin installing them and will install more as places open, like the beaches or the ball fields at EPCAL. They might just pop up sporadically. “

On Tuesday, the town released the proposed locations of the new bike racks.

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